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Marquette Rocketry named Mission Grand Champion at Collegiate Rocket Launch. To read the article, click here


NASA ranks Marquette engineering team 5th in nationwide lunar mining robot competition. Click here for the article


Entangled Air: Haggerty Museum of Art combines art and science in new exhibition

Dr. Somesh Roy, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Opus College of Engineering, is working together with contemporary artist Tomás Saraceno to showcase the effects of soot emissions through scientific and artistic lenses. 


Marquette receives over $1 million from Omron Corp. for the Omron Advanced Automation Lab


2022 OCOE Outstanding Teacher Award

Dr. Allison Murray, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering


Marquette ranked 83rd among national universities in U.S. News and World Report 2022 undergraduate rankings 


GRANTS:

  • Dr. Adam Dempsey, Assistant Professor, has received a 1-year $101,750 grant award from Aramco Services Company for the project, “Conventional Mixing Controlled Combustion in a Heavy-Duty Engine Using Light Naphtha.”
  • Drs. Joe Domblesky (PI), Associate Professor, and Phil Voglewede (Co-PI), Associate Professor, have received a 1-year $113,855 grant award from the Steel Founders’ Society of America for the project, “Adaptive Robot Positioning and Robotic Forging Cell Upgrade.”  Please note that the prime sponsor is Defense Logistics Agency Information Operations, J68, Research & Development, Ft. Belvoir, VA and the DLA Troop Support, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Dr. Adam Dempsey, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has received a 1-year, $101,750 award, from Aramco Services Company for the project titled, “Conventional Mixing Controlled Combustion in a Heavy-Duty Engine Using Light Naphtha.”

Dr. Simcha Singer, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has received a 3-year NSF grant in the amount of $275,112 for the project, “Capturing the impact of real, complex biomass char particle morphology during gasification.”

Dr. Adam Dempsey, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has received a 3-year, $3,975,058 award from the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-e), an office within the US Department of Energy. The project, “Prechamber Enabled Mixing Controlled Combustion of Natural Gas for Ultra-Low Methane Emissions from Lean-Burn Engines”, aims to reduce methane emissions from the lean-burn engines used in the US natural gas pipeline industry.  Dr. Dempsey and Marquette University are serving as the lead for this project and are collaborating with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mahle Powertrain, and Czero.

Dr. Adam Dempsey, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has received a 15-month, $2.5M award from the US Department of Energy for the project, “Development of a Flex-Fuel Mixing Controlled Combustion System for Gasoline/Ethanol Blends Enabled by Prechamber Ignition.”  This project includes small and large business partners as well as another academic institution: MAHLE Powertrain LLC; John Deere Power System; University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Clearflame Engines, Inc.  Marquette and the project partners are committing an additional $525,000 in required cost-share to the project.  In addition, the Missouri Corn Merchandising Council has contributed $100,000 to the project.

Dr. Somesh Roy, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has earned a 5-year $549,699 award from the National Science Foundation CAREER program for the project titled, “CAREER: A scalable multiscale modeling framework to explore soot formation in reacting flows.” These CAREER awards are highly competitive and some of the most prestigious grant awards that early career faculty may receive. 

Dr. Somesh Roy, Mechanical Engineering - $11,000 SFF and RRG - How black is black carbon: A first-principle-based study of radiative properties of soot or black carbon

Drs. John Borg and Brooke Mayer are Co-Investigators on a 1-year award from Kohler Company along with Drs. Krassimira Hristova (PI) and Chris Marshall (Co-I) from Biological Sciences.  The award is $84,707 for the project titled, “Shear Stress Required to Remove Microorganisms from Common Bath Surfaces Using Moving Air.”

Dr. Le Zhou has received a 2-year $200,000 award from the National Science Foundation for the project titled, “ERI: Manufacturability of Novel High Temperature Aluminum Alloys Through Additive Manufacturing Cycle.”

Dr. Joe Domblesky (PI), Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, along with Dr. Phil Voglewede (Co-PI), Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Dr. Richard Povinelli (Co-PI), Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, have received a 3-year award from the Defense Logistics Agency in collaboration with Advanced Technology International (ATI).  Marquette’s portion of the award is $502,832 for the project, Intelligent Impression Die Forging Process Monitoring.

Dr. John Moore has received a 3-year, $464,025 award from the National Science Foundation for the project, “Determining the Driving Force for Fatigue Crack Nucleation in a Superelastic Nickel Titanium Shape Memory Alloy.”

Two faculty members in Mechanical Engineering have forged a new relationship with Deublin USA and have received funding. Dr. John Moore received $8,600 for the project, “Elastoplastic Thermo-Mechanical Modeling of Steel/SiC Shrink Fits,” and Dr. Phil Voglewede received $25,000 for “The MIRT.”

Dr Kris Ropella (PI) and Dr. Allison Murray (Co-PI) have received a 3-year $300,000 award from the GHR Foundation for the project, “Racial Equity and Community Engagement Seed Grant.”